Jacques-Louis Lions died in the night of May 16th to 17th in Paris
after a long illness.

Born in 1928 he graduated from Ecole normale auperieure, France in 1950
and received his Doctorat d'Etat in 1954 , Laurent Schwartz being his
advisor. He was successively Professor at the Universite de Nancy,
Universite de Paris and Ecole Polytechnique, and then held a chair at
the College de France (Emeritus from 98). Member of 1'Academic des
Sciences as well as its president for two years. While teaching and
carrying on his research he was Inria's president (80-84) then
president of the French space agency (CNES.84-92) .These
last years he was active in Industry, being a board member or scientific

His exceptionaly prolific work covers both analysis and applications in
PDEs.In the early sixties he developped a school of numerical analysis
in PDE , using a systematic and rigorous variationnal approach.He also
was at the origin of the control theory in PDE.He directed dozens of
"Doctorat".and he can be credited for the use of Sobolev spaces in
Engineering. His students would also apply this to the analysis of the
Finite Element Method. His numerous students are now teaching eveywhere
in the world staying close to him and giving rise to a new French
mathematical school headed by him, exerting a lasting and widespread
influence on the international community.

Member of 20 academies in countries such as the former USSR, US, UK, EC,
as well as the Third World and Doctor Honoris Causa of 19 universities
including mine ( The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 97) has also won
many major prizes and awards among them the Von Neumann prize (86), the
Japan Prize for Science(91), the Technion's Harvey prize (91), the
Reid's SIAM prize (98).

He served as the secretary-general of the IMU, and then as its president.

His students mourn the passing of great man , a scientific father and
friend to them. For a short CV see :
http://www.college-de-france.fr/college/bibliographies/Lions.html

Joseph Traub, the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer
Science, Columbia University, received an Honorary Doctorate of
Science from Florida Central University at their commencement on May
4. The previous day he presented a talk to the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science titled "Computing: Yesterday, Today,
and Tomorrow".

GeoFEM is delveloped as the part of the Japanese national project,
Parallel Platform for Large Scale Solid Earth Simulation" project funded by
"Special Promoting Funds of Science & Technology" of the Ministry of
Education, Science and Technology, Japan which has been conduced since 1998.

GeoFEM includes parallel finite element codes for linear/nonlinear solid
mechanics and thermal fluid simulations, parallel iterative linear solver
library, partitioning subsystem, parallel visualization subsystem and
utilities for parallel I/O and coupling of multiple codes. GeoFEM is
originally developed for solid earth simulation but applicable for various
types of engineering and science applications. Users also plug-in their own
FEM codes to GeoFEM platform and can develop parallel FEM code easily.

GeoFEM is written in Fortran 90 and MPI (part of visualization/utility
subsystems in C and C++) and can work on various types of platforms from
LINUX clusters to massively parallel computers.

Researchers and engineers interested in GeoFEM can get information at
the following website :

http://geofem.tokyo.rist.or.jp

Source files of the entire codes, example input/output files and
documents can be downloaded from this website.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (JCMSE)

Original research papers are sought for a special issue focussing on
industrial applications of scientific computation expected to appear in
April, 2002. Submitted papers must address a problem with an
industrial source.

A common experience proves that computational methods originally
developed in a given basic/applied science can be of considerable
importance to other sciences as well as to engineering or technology.
This beneficial practice of cross fertilization will be continuously
and systematically endorsed by the JCMSE.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: September 1, 2001.
Expected date for notification of acceptance: October 31, 2001.

There will be a one-day meeting on sparse matrix matters at CERFACS, Toulouse,
France on June 13th.

Several visitors to CERFACS will be in attendance and the meeting is open to
anyone to attend. The following talks are already scheduled, but I
anticipate a couple more in the final programme which I will circulate when
ready. An up-to-date version of the programme will be available from the
web page http://www.cerfacs.fr/algor.

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop
"Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering", held in Warnem=FCnde,
Germany, August 20-23, 2000. This workshop followed two earlier workshops
held in 1997 at the Darmstadt University of Technology and in 1998 at
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics under the
auspices of the German Mathematical Society. The main topics of SCEE-2000
were computational electrodynamics, circuit simulation and coupled problems.
The objective of the workshop, which was mainly directed at mathematicians
and electrical engineers, was to bring together scientists from universities
and industry with the goal of intensive discussions about modelling and
numerical simulation of electronic circuits and electromagnetic fields. The
book contains contributions of six invited speakers, 30 contributed speakers
and 17 poster presentations.

International Conference on
Numerical Methods for Free Boundary Problems

September 19-22, 2001
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland

This conference continues the series of successful meetings on
the numerical and computational aspects of free boundary problems
started in 1993 by the ESF/FBP scientific programme. The first 8
meetings took place at Jyvaskyla (Finland, 1993), Pont-a-Mousson
(France, 1994), Pavia (Italy) and Freiburg (Germany, 1995),
Lamoura (France, 1996), Ittingen (Switzerland, 1997), Braga
(Portugal, 1998), Freiburg (Germany, 1999) and Berlin (Germany,
2000). This 9th conference of the series will be held in College
Park with the intention of encouraging more participation of US
researchers and stimulating the exchange of ideas between
American and European peers.

Department of Mathematics
Institute for Physical Science and Technology
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling
of the University of Maryland, College Park, and also by the
National Science Foundation
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

The participation of junior researchers is encouraged and
partially supported. There will be several 15 minute talks and
poster presentations. Use the website

www.math.umd.edu/research/interphase

to register and write the title and abstract of your talk or
poster. Please do so as soon as possible but not later than June 29.

A selection process will take place right after the deadline.

The website will be updated as time permits and will contain all
important information about the conference such as schedule of
talks and activities, as well as hotel and travel information.

UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCION, CHILE
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL ENGINEERING

FACULTY POSITIONS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS

The Department of Mathematical Engineering at the University of Concepcion
is recruiting for two tenured positions. Appointments at the rank of
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor are possible.
Successful candidates are expected to pursue an active research program,
perform both graduate and undergraduate teaching, and supervise graduate
students. The Department will consider applicants active in one of the
areas:

The ability of an applicant to complement and extend the existing research
strengths of the department will be an important factor in selection. A
Ph.D. or equivalent in Mathematics or related field is required. The
positions are available as of March 1, 2002 and salary will be commensurate
with experience.

We seek candidates with strong research interests who will appreciate the
unique geography and climate of Chile.

Applicants should submit a vita, two letters of recommendation and selected
reprints before September 30, 2001 to:

At the University of Bergen, Norway, there are available
One Post Doc position (1.5 years)
Two PhD scholarships (3 years each).
The post doc position and one of the PhD scholarships are financed through
the research project "Geometric Integration for PDEs", the other PhD
scholarship is related to programming theory and the use of mathematical
abstractions in the construction of software for scientific computing
(object orientation and coordinate free abstractions in numerical software design).

Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Oslo will host a special year on
Geometric Integration in the academic year 2002/2003 (autumn + spring).
The Post Doc candidate should participate full time in this program, and the
PhD candidates are expected to participage part time.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 26, 2001

More info on the positions:
http://www.focm.net/gi/positions_bergen_01.html ,
or contact
Hans Munthe-Kaas, hans@ii.uib.no
http://hans.munthe-kaas.no

Applications are invited for a University Lectureship in Applied
Mathematics, to take up appointment as soon as possible. The vacancy
arises through the election of Dr P H Haynes to the Professorship of
Applied Mathematics. Candidates are expected to have an outstanding
record of personal research; preference may be given to those whose
research is in Fluid or Solid Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics or
Mathematical Biology.

Further information may be obtained from the Head of Department, Professor
T J Pedley FRS, DAMTP, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW (email
T.J.Pedley@damtp.cam.ac.uk, telephone 01223-339842) to whom informal
enquiries may also be made. Applications (12 copies), including a
Curriculum Vitae, publication list, one-page research statement, and full
names, addresses, phone/fax numbers and email addresses of three academic
referees, should be sent to Professor Pedley by 15 June 2001. It is hoped
to hold interviews and make an appointment before the end of July.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the
new Journal HERMIS. Professor Elias A. Lipitakis is the
Editor-in-Chief of the HERMIS, which is focused in
the areas of Computer Mathematics and its Applications.
For further information please contact the